"If you continue to recite in this way, you will soon be promoted." "I'll do my best, sir," said Andy, who listened to these words with pleasure.
"I wish you were coming in the afternoon, too, Andy," said his friend, Charlie Fleming, as they walked home together.
"So do I, Charlie, but I must work for my mother." "That's right, Andy; I'd do the same in your place.

I haven't such foolish ideas about work as Godfrey Preston." "He ain't very fond of me," said Andy, laughing.
"No; nor of anybody else.

He only likes Godfrey Preston." "We got into a fight the first day I ever saw him." "What was it about ?" "He called my mother names, and hit me.

So I knocked him flat." "You served him right.

He's disgustingly conceited.